February 25, 2019
“To balance the personal and the political”: A Conversation with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang’s new book of poems, OBIT, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013) won a PEN Center USA Literary Award and a […]
February 14, 2019
“The impossible becomes possible with hybrid forms”: A Conversation with Katie Farris
Katie Farris is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and translator. She is the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, (Marick Press, 2011) and the chapbooks Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places, 2017), […]
February 5, 2019
Mina Loy’s Poetics of Rupture & Resistance: A Retrospective
Grammar as Causation and Ideology During her lifetime, Mina Loy was active as a painter, actress, writer, poet, and proponent of the decorative arts. Although working across genres and mediums, […]
January 17, 2019
“What’s at stake is the production of knowledge”: A Conversation with Chris Campanioni
Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American and the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland. He has worked as a journalist, model, and actor, and today teaches Latinx literature and creative writing […]
January 12, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Diane Goettel of Black Lawrence Press
Diane Goettel is the Executive Editor of Black Lawrence Press and founding editor of Sapling. As an undergraduate student, Diane studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. After receiving her […]
January 2, 2019
Textual Difficulty: A Performance of Otherness & Difference
In her hybrid text The End of the Sentimental Journey, Sarah Vap asserts that “we spend our lives both translating into and refusing, to some degree or another, (the nonexistent) […]
December 31, 2018
Publisher Spotlight: Kristy Bowen of Dancing Girl Press & Studio
A writer and visual artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of several book, chapbook and zine projects, including major characters in minor films (Sundress Publications, 2015), the shared properties of […]
December 26, 2018
“Let Her Balance on Nothing”: Notes on Victimization, Complicity, & the Gaze
Maria Lugones observes that “through traveling to other people’s ‘worlds’ we discover there are ‘worlds’ in which those who are the victims of arrogant perception are really subjects, lively beings, […]
December 17, 2018
“Transformed this way into your own atlas of being”: A Conversation with Gillian Cummings
Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry (The Center for Literary Publishing […]
December 11, 2018
“We transform among chaos”: A Conversation with Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Guernica and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and […]
November 28, 2018
“Beauty is embedded in the impulse”: A Conversation with Allison Titus
Allison Titus is the author most recently of SOB STORY (Barrelhouse) and The True Book of Animal Homes (Saturnalia). She embroiders erasures from discarded library books and with the poet […]
November 7, 2018
“Spare this body, set fire to another”: Speech & Silence in Work by Kaveh Akbar, Brenna Womer, & Henk Rossouw
In the one volume of writing that he published during his lifetime, Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Indeed, grammar, and […]